Posted
by
timothy
on Saturday March 19, 2016 @12:19AM
from the doesn't-sound-promising dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Tanvir Hassan Zoha, 34, security researcher, has gone missing just days after accusing Bangladesh's central bank officials of negligence, which facilitated the theft of over $81 million from the country's oversea accounts (hackers tried to steal $1 billion, but a typo stopped them). Zoha was apparently kidnapped this Wednesday after a jeep pulled over in front of his rickshaw. The friend that was with him was released hours later unharmed. When trying to contact police, family members were re-routed between police stations, and eventually gave up, contacting the media.

Yeah, that's the difference between the weaponized bureaucracy of the US and developing nations.

- both have a central government that breaks its own laws when it suits them- both have punitive legal systems that destroy the lives of people in the lower classes regardless of guilt- both have law enforcement that view citizens as fodder to beat, shoot and incarcerate with no oversight

- one shoots people it finds to be a problem, the other makes them disappear into a prison for decades

The US government is essentially a violent third world dictatorship with a hastily applied veneer of lawfulness and access to eye-watering amounts of resources and manpower.

Except the President believes he has the right to, at his sole discretion, decide a given individual is bad, and can lawfully order that person to be apprehended, then removed from the US, and held without charges, a trial or any notice to anyone that it has occurred, indefinitely.

To be precise, it was a "CNG auto-rickshaw"... doubt he felt he was in any danger until the moment they whisked him off. From the run-around his family got [bdnews24.com] by the local constabulary, it sounds as if the local police are part of the rendition, if no more than serving as an obstruction for someone else.

Has to be the largest single heist attempt ever, though perhaps pales to the systemic pillaging that Kaspersky mentioned last year. [kaspersky.com]... and they would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling keys.

No, When India gained independence, 2 provinces split off because they were Muslim-majority and didn't want to be under the control of the Hindu majority.

West Pakistan became simply Pakistan. East Pakistan became Bangladesh. It is a Muslim country, and it's one of the most corrupt nations in the world, but that's not because it's a muslim nation. It's because the wage scales and living conditions are at the level that the West is still trying to force its own workers to. It's a true capitalist's paradise, with minimal regulation which can be greased aside if you have enough capital and everyone is constantly looking for new and creative ways to be "entrepreneurial" without much respect for whether they're doing in in a legal manner or not.

No, When India gained independence, 2 provinces split off because they were Muslim-majority and didn't want to be under the control of the Hindu majority.

West Pakistan became simply Pakistan. East Pakistan became Bangladesh.

Way wrong. Pakistan and India were created [wikipedia.org] at the same time in 1947. East Bangladesh became independent from the rest of Pakistan in 1971 after a nasty genocide and war, supported by India.

It's because the wage scales and living conditions are at the level that the West is still trying to force its own workers to. It's a true capitalist's paradise, with minimal regulation which can be greased aside if you have enough capital and everyone is constantly looking for new and creative ways to be "entrepreneurial" without much respect for whether they're doing in in a legal manner or not.

Welcome to Poverty 101. Poor people aren't worth much. This means among other things, that anything more than "minimal regulation" kills people through starvation. You can complain about the lower regulations of Bangladesh, but a serious attempt to implement developed world regulation on Bangladesh would destroy the count

Would it be too much for you to read my post? I still stand by my words.

Pakistan didn't split off from India. It never was part of India and actually came into being the day before India did. Nor was it "two provinces", but parts of several provinces (Baluchistan, Bengal, Punjab, Sindh, Northwest Frontier) and a number of "princely states". Nor did East Pakistan just "become" Bangladesh. It took a quarter century and winning a significant civil war.

In the second, you seem to be justify low wages and bad working conditions because it makes them competitive with a place that provides low wages and bad working conditions. It's called Bangladesh.